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The City currently had 19 neighborhood associations and may have more if larger <br />associations break up, so question the idea of planning for one neighborhood every two years <br />as it would take 40 years to complete the area planning process. Have heard from <br />neighborhoods that their plans are already too old. Acknowledge that budget constraints <br />probably limit the City, but would like to see the speed of planning increase and ongoing <br />finding allocated in this area. (Duncan) <br />Heard strong support for the concept from neighborhood associations, particularly the need <br />for the area plans. (Ruiz) <br />Ms. O'Donnell reviewed the strategies associated with the pillar Provide affordable housing for all <br />income levels. <br />Strategy L Plan for a higher proportion of new housing stock to be multi family than the 39 <br />percent of multi family than currently exists. Increasing the proportion of multi family housing <br />increases the amount of housing accessible to all income ranges. <br />Young families with children increasingly find Eugene too expensive, and those families <br />needed to be taken into consideration. (Belcher) <br />Children need places to play, so families living in multi - family housing will need <br />neighborhood parks and open spaces. (Belcher) <br />Oregon demographic studies do not project growth in Oregon's school population for years to <br />come because residents were having fewer or no children. Whether Eugene wanted young <br />families or not, the City needed to consider what it actually needed to plan for. (Piercy) <br />Strategy 2 : Expand housing variety and choice by facilitating the building of smaller, clustered, <br />and attached housing. <br />• In addition to the housing and transportation costs, include utility costs related to green buildings. <br />(Randall) <br />Strategy 3 : Assess the utility of a housing and transportation affordability index. This index <br />rates neighborhoods based on the combined cost of housing and transportation costs that may be <br />a better indicator of affordability than housing costs alone. <br />• Suggest the online "walk score" could be a useful tool when considering the housing and <br />transportation affordability index and variable systems development charges. (Randall) <br />• Rethink 30 percent rule; lenders use more of a 40 to 50 percent rule. Although government might <br />use 30, we should use what lenders were using in today's world. (Duncan) <br />Strategy . Support subsidized affordable housing projects with a goal of providing 500 <br />affordable housing units every five years, consistent with the Eugene- Springfield Consolidated <br />Plan 2010. <br />Emphasize the importance of having mid -level subsidized housing. Recall failure of past <br />funding mechanisms to fund affordable housing, which underscore the challenge of finding <br />such acreage, particularly of sufficient size, to land bank. (Farr) <br />Will never be able to build enough subsidized housing to meet demand. Build as much <br />subsidized housing as possible with the recognition that occupants will transition over time to <br />more expensive housing as their economic status improved. Agree with concept that an <br />MINUTES — Eugene City Council February 16, 2011 Page 2 <br />Work Session <br />